This weekend, the biggest event in the American sporting calendar, Super Bowl LX, took place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. And whether you were rooting for the New England Patriots, cheering for the Seattle Seahawks, or think a Nickel Back is simply the name of one of the great rock bands of the 21st century, the real main event for us movie nerds was, as ever, the trailers. And while we didn’t get anything super crazy at SB60, we have just had fresh glimpses at The Mandalorian & Grogu, Project Hail Mary, Disclosure Day, The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, and a few more blockbusters set to make a big impact in 2026. Check ’em out below;

The Mandalorian And Grogu

With Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian And Grogu now merely three months out from its 22 May release, we’ve all had our eyes fixed on the movie’s long-mooted Super Bowl spot for a greater sense of what our favourite reformed-bounty-hunter-dad-and-Force-sensitive-adopted-son duo’s big screen debut has in store. Would we learn the name of Sigourney Weaver’s New Republic commander? Hear Jeremy Allen White’s Rotta the Hutt speak? Cop a Moff Gideon return tease even? The answer is, well, not exactly. Instead, we got a Sam Elliott narrated 30-second clip of Mando and Grogu riding on Tauntauns through the Hoth (?) snow, Favs paying tongue-in-cheek homage to classic Budweiser Super Bowl ads of yore. What could it all mean? No idea! But if Sam Elliott fancies a jaunt to that galaxy far, far away, we certainly wouldn’t complain about hearing his gravelly tones in a Star War… the man’s a legend.

The Adventures Of Cliff Booth

And away we go! Altogether less expected from this year’s Super Bowl drops was a surprise first look at David Fincher’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood follow-up The Adventures Of Cliff Booth. And yet — and yet! — that’s precisely what Netflix gave us. Set to the Peter Gunn theme tune, the minute-long teaser reintroduced us to a now-moustachioed, still Hawaiian shirt rocking Cliff Booth, an Oscar up and (seemingly) a Rick Dalton down, as his new calling — as a Hollywood fixer — sees him tangling with Elizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and more in late 70s LA. The Tarantino-penned OUATIH spin-off already looks like another hangout movie we’re gonna want to spend all our time hanging out with — machetes, dirt tracks, dodgy ‘taches, and all. No concrete word on when this one’s out just yet, but keep Summer 2026 open for the Fincher x QT collaboration dreams are made of.

Project Hail Mary

Unlike The Mandalorian & Grogu and The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, we’ve actually had a few meaty trailers for Project Hail Mary already — not that we’re complaining. Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s live-action directorial return — a hotly anticipated, Ryan Gosling led adaptation of The Martian author Andy Weir’s sci-fi bestseller — has, dare we say it, the potential to be as decade-defining a sci-fi blockbuster for the 2020s as Interstellar was for the 2010s. Though the trailer itself gives way more away, all you really need to know is that Gosling plays a 6th grade science teacher with zero astronaut qualifications who finds himself sent on a ‘Hail Mary’ mission to space to investigate why stars across the universe are dying. Shot in widescreen and IMAX, it literally looks epic. Roll on 20 March!

Disclosure Day

Crop circles? Check! Synth-eyed Colin Firth? Check! Biblical imagery? Check! Josh O’Connor and/or Emily Blunt’s car getting rammed by a train mid-alien invasion? Check! Yeah, we’re thinking Steven Spielberg is back, The newly minted EGOT and long recognised GOAT is back back back in sci-fi blockbuster territory with Disclosure Day, which looks to see O’Connor, Blunt, Firth, and a cadre of stars including Eve Hewson, Wyatt Russell, and Colman Domingo dealing with, well, Disclosure Day — the day the Earth wakes up to the existence of extraterrestrials. The enigmatic logline for the secretive movie simply reads: “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … ‘Disclosure Day.’” Oh yeah, you best believe we’re seated already. Movie’s not out til 12 June but we’re already at the cinema, our corn’s already popping, and you best believe the ice is blasting. We want to believe! D’oh! Wrong franchise…

Minions & Monsters

Bello! Just when you thought you might’ve seen the last of those annoyingly adorable/adorably annoying sentient tic-tacs, guess who’s back? Yup, Minions & Monsters — the third Minions movie and seventh Despicable Me franchise entry overall — is heading our way and… it looks pretty fun, actually. Billed as “the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created,” the Minions’ latest adventure is about to bring us new lil’ yellow fellas, a strangely cute baby Cthulhu, and, er, a great big pink rabbit with a satanic side. So there’s something to look forward to on 1 July!

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Since Illumination and Nintendo dropped the bob-ombshell news that The Super Mario Bros. Movie‘s sequel would be based on the Super Mario Galaxy games last September, anticipation for the movie has been growing — aided to no end by the reveal in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’s first trailer that Benny Safdie Bowser Jr. and Brie Larson Princess Rosalina will be making their debuts in the new film. In the movie’s bite-sized Super Bowl spot however, it’s dino fan-favourite Yoshi who takes centre stage, putting the pedal to the metal on a rad motorbike and, well, ingesting Kevin Michael Richardson’s Magikoopa Kamek and pooping him out as a dino egg-shaped power-up. Wa-ha!

Scream 7

This is gonna be a Scream, baby — a Scream 7, in fact! Neve Campbell is back in the Sidney Prescott saddle this time out and Ghostface is hitting pretty close to home as they target Sid’s nearest and dearest, both figuratively and literally starting fires all over the shop. We’ve already had a full trailer for OG Scream writer Kevin Williamson’s franchise directorial debut, but this latest look — featuring Sid and Gale Weathers’ reunion, eerie psych wards, and something that sounds a hell of a lot like Matthew Lillard’s Stu Macher — is undeniably eye-catching, though sorely missing ‘core four’ members Sam (Melissa Barrera) and Tara (Jenna Ortega). It’ll be interesting to see how it all comes together when Scream 7 lands in cinemas on 27 February.